Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1887-09-09

citation. doing efficient work among the ''poor
whites" of the Cumberland Mountains IN
Tennessee. He has recently completed
meeting house and is now building school
house.
SAGAbAHoc.
While Charles, the youngest son OF M. v.
Chapman of Bowdoinhsm, was wrestling
with another small boy, Tuesday afternoon
he fell so as to break both bones in his right
arm.-Mr. George F. Blake andfamily left
last Tuesday, for Besttie, Kansas. Mr.
Blake has been in business here about 20
years.
A test of some of the hydrants was made
Wednesday afternoon in the presence OF
members of the Bath City Government, Fire
Department and citizens. Hose was attached
and the water turned on with pressure of
about ll5 pound to the inch and citizens
were shown what could be done in case of FIRE.
On Front street at the head of Centre, q
stream from the hydrant was thrown some
ten or twenty feet higher than the Sagadahoc
House, Notwithstanding the wind which was
blowing almost gale at the time Through
two lines Of hose from the same hydrant the
water wa. then turned, one stream pointing
down past Mitchell's stable and reaching
nearly to Commercial street, and the other
wetting down Front street in front of the Post
Office, the stream coming direct from the
hose with no nozzle attached. The exhibition
was gratifying to all who saw it and nothing
but expressions of satisfaction with the ap-
parent efficacy of the service, were heard.
SOMERSET.
There came near being a serious accident
while the ladies were in bathing the other
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too far, and got stuck in the mud. After sew
eral useless efforts by her companions to
rescue her, assistance was called for from
the village. Several men went to the rescue
and succeeded in extricating her from her
perilous position.
A novel case of search and seizure occurred
at Harmony last week On complaint of a
woman in Harmony, two deputy sheriffs from
o;her towns made thorough search for
liquors at the hotel in that quiet village, which
resulted in capturing about half a pint of
wine that belonged to the landlords daughter,
who was using it for medicine, and also
about half dozen old empty bottles which
were lying in some of the unoccupied corners
all of which the officers carried off. The
hotel keeper was notified to appear at Show
hogan the next day to be tried and receive
his sentence. At the trial, Judge Dascomb
decided that the wine was the daugeter's own
private medicine, and the empty bottles have
no bearing in such cases, and ordered the
defendant discharged, without argument.
WALDO.
The Belfast City Press says: Mr.. Alfred
Rowe attempted to take his own life last
Friday morning, bv stabbing himself with a
jack knife. His wife who was at work about
the house quite early in the morning, heard
Mr.. Rowe groaning, and, on going to his
room, found blood on the bed clothes. In
reply to her questions as to what was the
trouble he replied you'll know when I'm
gone" DR.. Il. H. johnson was at once
summoned, and it was learned that Mr.. Rowe
had stabbed himself in three places in the left
breast, over the heart. Neither of the
wounds is deep enough to prove fatal. Mr.,
Rowe has been in poor health for several
years.
The Belfast Journal says: Last December
Mr.. W. X. Morrison of this city, put up as a
premium one of the New England company's
organs valued at $780, For every cash pur-
chase at retail to the amount of SO the buyer
was presented with ticket in the organ, and
700 tickets were thus disposed of. Last
Saturday the drawing took place. All the
tickets were placed in box and well shaken
up and small hoy named Dutch drew out
one which was to take the organ. No. 465
was the lucky number and is held by Mr.. c.
A. Pilsbury, editor of the Journal Mr..
Pill bury only took the ticket at the request
Of Mr.. Morrison, after making purchase, and
had not the least expectation of drawing the
prize-Mr George Miller went to work in
the Maine Central yard in this city last week
az swtchman and helper. While coupling
cars he got caught between two cars and his
left arm was badly jammed but no bones
were broken.
Ex-Judge Chase of Saco received a letter
from his son in Boston, Thursday evening, in
which it was stated that he met a well-known
lady friend OF his, formerly resident Of
Saco, the day before, and she told him for a
positive fact that she saw Frank C. McNeely
on Washington street. Wednesday evening
of last week. The lady was very positive in
her statement, and evidently fully believes
that she saw the absconding clerk. The
latest rumor is that McNeely was recently in
Syracuse, N. Y, and from there went to New
York City, where he took passage for Aus
ITALIA.
Rev. Father Dupont announced from the
desk at st. Joseph's church, Biddeford, last
Sunday, that in the future no body of uni
formed men should be allowed admission to
the church upon any occasion Tuesday,
Painchaud's band escorted the funeral pro-
cession of the two drowned boys TO the
church door and there remained for three
quarters of an hour during the exercises.
John S. Chute received serious injuries at
the York corporation, Biddeford, on Wednes-
day the 7th.
Parties from Greenfield, Mass, have suc.
ceeded in purchasing between six and seven
acres Of land near the shore at Ogunquit. and
will improve the appearance of the lower end
of the town by erecting fine buildings there
The residents are jubilant over the project,
inasmuch as it has been considered an i'm
possibility to procure land here at any price.
With the new bridge, and the railroad in the
near future and the corner in land broken,
this place, which has been known to only a
few, will be known to many as a resort of
unequalled facilities.
reply has been received from the Treas
ury Department at Washington acknowledge
ing the entrance of Ssco & Biddeford banks
caveat in come ction with the stolen registered
bonds, and a circular detailing the process to
be pursued in obtaining duplicate bonds.